By Samuel Wamuttu on January 12, 2020
AggreyBagiire, desert locusts, Eriteria, Ethiopia, FAO, Kenya, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, uganda ministry of agriculture
Agriculture, Agriculture, Agriculture, Latest Uganda News
Uganda’s ministry of agriculture has announced that it is on high alert over an eminent threat of desert locusts that have invaded the East African Region especially the neighboring Kenya. The revelation was made on Friday by Aggrey Bagiire, the State Minister of Agriculture, Animal Industry and Fisheries during a press briefing at the Ugandan […]
By Isaac Senabulya on June 27, 2018
agribusiness, Financial Sector Deepening Uganda, Joel Muhumuza, Micro insurance
Agriculture, Business & Management, Development work, Featured, Latest Uganda News, WeInformers Blogs
The Financial Sector Deepening Uganda (FSDU), a company committed to promoting greater access to financial services and reducing financial exclusion in Uganda has called farmers to start insuring their agribusiness using micro insurance. Micro insurance is a mechanism designed to protect low income earners against risk like accident, illness, death in the family, natural disasters among […]
By mugisa geofrey on May 23, 2018
Amelia Kyambadde, KOICA, teso fruit factory, Uganda Development Corporation, Yudaya Kadondi
Agriculture, Agriculture, Agriculture, Business & Economics, Business & Finance, Latest Uganda News
Dry tests at the Teso Fruit Factory in Soroti indicate it will finally be ready for launch before the end of this year. Trade Minister Amelia Kyambadde, members of the Board of Uganda Development Corporation (UDC), Leaders of Teso Region, farmers and other stakeholders toured the factory on Wednesday 16th May 2018 and were shown the […]
By mugisa geofrey on May 23, 2018
Coca Cola, president John Magufuli, President of Uganda, yoweri museveni
Agriculture, Agriculture, Business & Management
American multinational beverage corporation, the business behind the Coca-Cola Company was pleased to hear that the highly awaited fruit factory in Uganda would commence operations soon. The $12 million rated fruit factory had not operated since its construction began back in 2015, suffering a heavy setback to the key players and the farmers who had […]
By Isaac Senabulya on May 22, 2018
African governments, animal welfare
Africa, Agriculture, Agriculture, Regional
Following the cruel and inhumane treatment of animals, African governments and people have been asked to enact proper legislation in order to ensure animal welfare in their representative countries. This was during the world’s marking of the International Day for Biological and Biodiversity under the theme celebrating 25 years of action for biodiversity. The Director […]
By Isaac Senabulya on May 7, 2018
Zheng Zhugiang
Africa, Agriculture, Agriculture
The Chinese government has asked government has asked policy makers in the country to ensure more resources are allocated to develop the agriculture sector. The Chinese Ambassador to Uganda Zheng Zhugiang said, although government is focusing on developing the industrial sector, the agricultural sector must not be ignored. He said the agriculture can provide employment […]
By mugisa geofrey on April 25, 2018
National forestry Authority(NFA), Paul Musamali, Reagan Okumu, Thomas Tayebwa
Agriculture, Agriculture, General, Latest Uganda News
Members of Parliament have tasked officials from National Forestry Authority (NFA) to explain the circumstances leading to the reduced forest cover and rampant deforestation in the country. Officials from the NFA led by the acting Executive Director Paul Musamali were meeting MPs on the Natural Resources Committee now considering the Ministerial Policy Statement for financial […]
By Samuel Wamuttu on November 7, 2016
a variety of passion fruits and other crops on a two-acre piece of land, accompanied the President., Animal Industry and Fisheries, commissioning a solar water pumping irrigation system at Kyerero village, Dr. Ruhakana Rugunda, Employment and Industrial Relations and area MP, Farmer Kwehangaana Rutaro grows apples, former NAADS and the Ministry of Water and Environment, Hon. David Bahati and State Minister for Labour, Hon. Herbert Kabafunzaki, Hon. Vincent Ssempija, in Kabale district, Kaberamaido, Katakwi, Kiryandongo, Kumi, masindi, Mukono and Luuka solar water pumping irrigation schemes, Nyamihanda Parish near Muhanga Township in Bukinda, people to shift away from mass eradication of poverty through modern methods of farming with accountability in mind, President Yoweri Museveni has encouraged farmers in the country, Prime Minister, Rubanda county, Rukiga County, soroti, State minister for planning, tasked the Ministry of Agriculture, The Minister of Agriculture, The system was installed on the farm of Mr. Charles Kwehangaana Rutaro following the President's pledge in 2010, to install in the districts of Kabale, to instill in their minds the culture and practice of growing crops all year around using any improvised means of irrigation scheme to combat drought spells, who are engaged in crop production
Agriculture, Latest Uganda News
President Yoweri Museveni has encouraged farmers in the country, who are engaged in crop production, to instill in their minds the culture and practice of growing crops all year around using any improvised means of irrigation scheme to combat drought spells. “The science of pumping water from a water source to a reservoir at a […]
By Isaac Senabulya on September 3, 2016
Africa coffee Academy, appreciate agriculture through use of technology, attract exhibitors from Brazil, Buganda minister for finance and investment, Burundi, coffee technology expo organized by Braz –Afric group, drought and disease, investors to tap into more agricultural technology, Kenya, Nsibirwa who is also the Chief Executive officer, quality seeds and technological machines at low cost, Robert Waggwa Nsibirwa, Rwanda and Uganda, scheduled for 1st to 3rd September this year at UMA conference hall in Kampala, Turkey, Uganda is still the biggest coffee exporter in Africa with 3.5 million bags per year and second biggest producers., Water for production, youth involvement so that they can realise high production of crops like coffee for exports
Agriculture, Latest Uganda News
Buganda minister for finance and investment, Robert Waggwa Nsibirwa has called on investors to tap into more agricultural technology that encourages youth involvement so that they can realise high production of crops like coffee for exports. Nsibirwa made the remarks while briefing journalists on the upcoming coffee technology expo organized by Braz –Afric group ,scheduled […]
By Isaac Senabulya on August 17, 2016
Alhaji Momodou Jallow, and the need to strengthen agricultural extension and advisory services countrywide., Deparrtment for International Development (DFID), Development partners who support the Agricultural sector in Uganda are unhappy with the way government pampers companies supplying fake seeds to farmers, especially those with big chunks of land, European Union (EU), FAO, French Embassy and Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) among others expressed their disappointment while meeting with the minister of Agriculture, government to put in place laws that punish those companies which supply fake seeds to farmers, government to start distributing free farm inputs to farmers, International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), Japanese International Cooperation Agency (JICA), ministry of agriculture to bring private sector on board, Netherlands Cooperation, the strategies for strengthening certification and regulation of the agricultural inputs market (fake seeds), Uganda Country representative, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP, United Sates Agency for International Development (USAID), Vincent Bamulangaki Ssempijja at FAO offices in Kampala, ways on how to finalize the formulation and approval of the irrigation policy, World Bank, World Food Programme (WFP)
Agriculture, Latest Uganda News
Development partners who support the Agricultural sector in Uganda are unhappy with the way government pampers companies supplying fake seeds to farmers. Representatives from International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), United Sates Agency for International Development (USAID), Netherlands Cooperation, World Bank, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), European Union (EU), Japanese International Cooperation Agency (JICA), Deparrtment […]
